Goals for the decade?

[moonshield]

I am curious on what goals people have for the next decade...

My goals, as of now, are to attend Georgetown Law School, to become a patent attorney, to buy a condo in Watergate, to pay for my college career with my websites, and to live happily ever after.

[incka]

To rule all of the Earth, plus Titan and 2/3's of saturn's rings.

[Mike]

To be settled down, and to have a comfortable lifestyle.

[incka]

To be settled down, and to have a comfortable lifestyle.

Your chairs shall all have spikes upon them. :p


For some reason I've got a weird british humor bug today... Now where can I put in a toilet joke?

[moonshield]

british humor? Thats pretty cool... where I live there is no such thing as humor.

[Chris]

To have kids and a castle in the mountains.

Honestly, alot of what I do now is for many years in the future. Sites like this site, or my template site, they're not meant to make me money now, they're meant to make me money in 5 years.

[moonshield]

which mountains? The East or in the West?

[Chris]

Most likely around Knoxville, but I wouldn't be adverse to the pacific northwest.

[incka]

I must say a castle in the mountains does sound nice...

Apart from my AWS sites, most of the sites I make are their to make me money in the future, as I'm still at school I don't need instant money, so long term investment is best.

[AndyH]

10 years, hmmmm.

To have bought some property around where I live, on the beach. To travel around the world, stopping at penthouse apartments the other side of the world to do work.

[MarkB]

To own homes in 4 countries, be financially independent, to have a degree in history and/or politics (I still have to find time to start studying, of course:P), but if all that fails, just being happy will be good enough for me.

[incka]

I thought this was for by 2010, not 2014...

Um, well if it is 2014 then:

Do have a degree in politics (or political ideologies) and business.
To own a real estate empire.
To own a publishing empire (offline and online).
(Thanks to Chris for enspiring me) To be the man in the high castle, preferably in a small country such as litchenstein or a carribean island.

And maybe:

To be married.
To own a large share in the freedom ship company.
To own around 1000 sq kilometers of beautiful land, maybe in Canada.

[The New Guy]

Err political science is really boring, stay away.

[incka]

I didn't think so after reading Political Ideologies by Andrew Heywood. Not everyone finds the same things boring.

[The New Guy]

Well than I suggest reading:

The Prince by Machiavelli (You probably sleep with this book ;) )
Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky
Anything by John Locke (Big in Poly Sci)
Anything by Thomas Hobbes (Big in Poly Sci, Leviathan)
Communist Manifesto by Marx.
The Republic by Plato

[James]

Prolly the same as I'm doing now, but actually making money from it, and having a degree involving computers.

[Xander]

My primary goal is financial indepence by the end of the decade. I've split it two ways of achieveing it, online via websites and offline by suitable qualifictions(which help both).

[Billyray]

Mine is to go and visit all my new found websitepublisher forum friends in their Castles (in the hills or on the beach - I'm not fussy). :D

I aim to build about 50 websites and make 50 friends :D.

Hopefully I'll have enough to stay a week in each place and then come home for Xmas.

All joking aside - Chris, how do you anticipate making big returns on sites such as this is 5 yrs time? Other than what you are doing now?

[Chris]

I just hope to be making more money off this site as it's traffic will be larger. In 5 years these forums could have a million posts and tens of thousands of members. I expect to be able to earn around $10k a month off of that.

[moonshield]

wow, 10k! thats a whole lota money, whats it bring in right now?

[Nintendo]

By 2014 I hope to be repeating the nice 2000 gold rush again by making $100,000 or more a year.

Not all types of message boards can rack in the cash. I've had over a million posts made on a video game message board, and it makes, er used to make, about $100 a month, until it got hacked to death over the last two weeks (And is still geting hacked).

[Westech]

In the next decade, my goal is for both my wife and myself to become 100% self employed making at least as much as we do now in our full-time jobs. I plan to do this through a combination of consulting, web hosting, teaching adjunct college courses, and content/ecommerce site revenue.

[Chris]

wow, 10k! thats a whole lota money, whats it bring in right now?
Not very much.

Its true, not all forums bring in money. This forum though I've done my best to gear to business and website owners, so I'm hoping for alot of B2B advertising and that can bring in alot.

[moonshield]

yes, it looks like your ranked very well in the Search Engines for many keywords.